North Lincolnshire’s Local Safeguarding Children Board
Safeguarding Children
in a Digital World
E-Safety Strategy
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Local Safeguarding Children Board
55-57 Oswald Road
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
DN15 7PE
Working Together to
Keep Children Safe
Telephone: 01724 867821
Jake
from Winterton Junior School
Contents
Page
Section
1 Definition of E safety ............................................................................................................................1
2 Aims and Objectives............................................................................................................................1
3 E-Safety: an overview of the issues relating to child protection ..........................................................2
4 Background: Safeguarding children in an increasingly digital world......................................................3
5 Developing an e-safety strategy in North Lincolnshire..........................................................................5
Appendices
1 Terms of Reference for E safety task group ........................................................................................8
2 E safety Implementation Plan ............................................................................................................11
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Cameron
from St. Hughes
Section 1: Definition of E safety
Safeguarding children in the digital world is a
rapidly increasingly area within keeping children
safe. Within the strategy the definition of E safety
we comply with is taken form the Becta toolkit:
'By eSafety we refer to the process of limiting
risks to young people when using all fixed and
mobile technologies, now and in the future,
which allow them access to content and
communications that could raise issues or
pose risks to their wellbeing and safety. The
process is achieved through a combined
approach of policies and procedures,
infrastructure and education, underpinned by
standards and inspection'
Section 2: Aims and Objectives
• To update and expand on the existing LSCB
practice guidance related to internet safety.
• To ensure that systems are in place to identify,
intervene and protect children and young
people from harm due to e safety issues
• To clarify the reporting mechanism for all
member agencies and partners of the LSCB
and to make it inclusive of the Internet Watch
Foundation and CEOP as well as the police.
• To develop a media strategy for dealing with
child protection incidents
Education, training and information
• To ensure that children, young people,
parents, carers and those working with
children and young people have access to
effective training regarding e safety.
Mission statement
We harness and integrate new technologies,
ensuring that we use them safely and to enhance
the lives and learning of people within North
Lincolnshire.
• To develop an awareness campaign that will
focus on educating key stakeholders (parents
and carers, the media and partner agencies)
about the opportunities and the threats of the
internet and digital technologies.
Aims
• To build E-safety arrangements within the
organisational structure of the LSCB.
Infrastructure and technology
• To develop in collaboration with agencies and
partners of the LSCB a set of robust principles
and guidance about safe internet provision
that take into account national standards on
filtering and accreditation of software.
• To develop an E safety task group that has
multi agency membership and a defined terms
of reference and implements an E safety
Action Plan
• To ensure that e Safety is recognized and
responded to as a safeguarding issue
Objectives
Policies, procedures and practices
• To ensure that member agencies and partners
of the LSCB, as well as other settings in which
children and young people access the internet
and other digital technologies, have in place
policies, procedures and practices that enable
children and young people to use the internet
and mobile digital technologies safely.
• To develop and disseminate good practice
information to other providers (such as post
offices, internet cafés, phone boxes, digital
handheld devices and mobile phones) aimed
at enabling children and young people to use
the internet safely and responsibly.
• To develop a mechanism that will bring
together experts in ICT and related
technologies and also practitioners with a
statutory duty to safeguard children to
consider new and emerging technologies and
their trends, and to disseminate good practice
as quickly as possible to agencies providing
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services to children, young people and their
families.
Inspection and standards
• To develop a monitoring mechanism that will
record the national standards on internet
safety to which member agencies adhere.
• To develop a number of themed audits, that
identify the extent to which e-safety is
embedded as part of the safeguarding
responsibilities of member agencies and
partners of the LSCB.
• To consult with children and young people
regarding e safety issues
Section 3: E-Safety: an overview
of the issues relating to child
protection
The Children Act 2004 provides a legislative
framework for a range of strategies which are
aimed at improving the lives of all children. The
overall aim is to encourage and support the
integration of planning, commissioning and
delivery of services to children and to improve
interdisciplinary working. The act gives legal
status to ‘Every Child Matters, Change for
Children’.
The five key outcomes of Every Child Matters
includes ‘Stay Safe’ and this outcome particularly
relates to the e-safety agenda, it includes aims
that children and young people are:
• Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and
sexual exploitation
• Safe from accidental injury and death
• Safe from bullying and discrimination
• Safe from crime and antisocial behaviour in
and out of school
• Secure, stable and cared for
Abuse and neglect of children
Abuse and neglect of children are forms of
maltreatment. A person may abuse or neglect a
child by inflicting harm or by failing to act to
prevent harm.
The Children Act 1989 provides clear definitions
of the four main categories of abuse: physical
abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and
neglect.
ICT can be conduit to abuse and therefore all the
necessary precautions must be in place in Local
Authorities, these include a shared policy and
effective practices. (Protective Marking, CEOPs,
2007)
Although these aims were written in relation to
real world situations and scenarios, many equally
apply to the ‘virtual world’ that children and young
people encounter whenever they use ICT.
Communication via the internet is increasing at a
rapid rate and the development and popularity of
social networking sites over recent years, has
brought a new set of issues and potential threats
to young people. Issues such as cyber bullying
and grooming will be addressed later in the
document.
Often referred to as ‘digital natives’, children are
now citizens born into a digital world, growing up
surrounded by and immersed in technology and
tools of the digital age….. whilst most children’s
confidence and competence in using ICT is high,
their knowledge and understanding of the risks
may be low.(Developing an e-safety strategy,
Becta, 2008)
E-safety has become a significant issue in the
safeguarding agenda, it is always developing and
moving on because of technological
developments and therefore associated
safeguarding issues will also change and develop,
possibly changing the nature of safeguarding
issues.
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Safeguarding children regarding e safety has two
shared objectives irrespective of the environment
they are in:
• To provide a safe environment for children and
young people to learn, play and socialise in a
range of settings
• To identify children and young people who are
suffering or are likely to suffer harm, and to
take appropriate action with the aim of making
sure they are kept safe both at home and in
other environments.
These objectives place a responsibility on all
establishments to provide a safe e-learning
environment for all young people who enter into
the virtual world, regardless of whether at school,
at home or in any other setting.
See:
www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandco
mmunity
The Children Act, 1989 defined a range of child
abuse definitions that can now be identified in
terms of ICT environments. The new and
emerging technologies will offer challenging
options to those intent on abusing children, as
they investigate how the new technologies can
facilitate their abuse of children.
Section 4: Background:
Safeguarding children in an
increasingly digital world
The use of ICT and associated digital
technologies offers many positive educational and
social benefits to young people such as
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Education and Learning
Participation and civic engagement
Creativity
Identity and social connection,
Digital technologies are increasingly an integral
part of children and young people’s lives with their
knowledge and skill using them often surpassing
he adults around them. Children use them to
learn, play and communicate.
The number of households in the UK with internet
access has risen to 15m (61%) in 2007, with 84%
of these having broadband access. Becta figures
suggest that over 80% of homes with school
aged students have internet access. Children use
the internet for both social and academic (school)
purposes however it is increasingly clear both
uses can put children at risk of accessing material
which is deemed unsuitable. (Becta, 2007)
However there are risks and concerns regarding
what these technologies bring in relation to the
use of video games and the internet.
The majority of concerns regarding video games
center upon the violent material within them and
their excessive use. The two primary concerns
can be summarised as whether children learn anti
social behaviour or violent behaviour from the
games they play and the health impacts of game
playing such as obesity.
There are three areas of concern regarding
Internet use and these are in relation to:
• Contact
• Conduct
• Content
The internet has increased the risk of strangers
contacting children, a recent Ofcom survey (2008)
found that adults masquerading as younger
people is one of the biggest concerns of parents.
Compounded by this is a generational divide
where parents feel ill equipped to help support
their children in on line safety in the same way
that they would support them in the off line
environment by giving them advice about
‘stranger danger’. The use of social networking
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sites is increasing with 49% of 8-17 year olds
saying they have a profile on a social networking
site (Ofcom 2008). Whilst these sites offer great
opportunities for children and young people, they
lack the age grouping that there would be in real
life amongst a circle of friends making them
confusing environments for children. The role of
parents in advising and supporting children and
young people is therefore essential. A significant
number of young people have been contacted by
strangers on line and a study by Valkenburg and
Scheuten found that there is an age
discriminatory factor in talking to strangers on line,
as it was found that this is something that
12-14 year olds would do but usually not older
teenagers. Worryingly a CEOP survey found that
25% of children and young people have met
someone offline that they first made contact with
on line and that an increased awareness of risk
does not necessarily curtail young people’s risk
taking behaviour.
Concerns are emerging regarding the conduct of
children and young people on line, for example in
relation to cyberbullying. However conduct can
also relate to the type of information young people
are putting up on their social network profiles.
Research is beginning to reveal that people act
differently on the internet and that they can alter
their moral code in the absence of face to face
communication. Information on line is much more
open to interpretation as there are no non-verbal
communication cues in which to interpret the
verbal information within. Research by Millwood,
Hargrave and Livingston 2008 suggest that
certain on line behaviours for example talking
about sex, rude comments can increase the risk
of victimisation online. Therefore it is important
that children and young people are advised and
supported regarding their on line behaviours and
potential consequences of behaviour. In addition
personal information on line is now being used by
employers as part of recruitment practices,
therefore young people need to be aware of the
impact upon their reputations and potential
careers of the digital footprint they leave.
Content is a major concern regarding the internet
and in particular sexual content. A report by
Livingstone and Bober 2005 reported that 57% of
9-19 year olds have come into contact with
pornography on line, through pop up adverts,
stumbling across a website or visiting a site on
purpose. Of these children only 16% tell their
parents they have encountered it. Peter and
Valkenburg (2006) have found correlations
between exposure to sexually explicit on line
content and attitudes towards sex. This will have
implications upon the sex education children and
young people receive and the importance of
relationship education and challenging negative
stereotypes or beliefs. There are also other
concerns regarding content on line in particular
to pro social sites that encourage specific
behaviours and feed into insecurities that
individuals may have such as pro anorexia sites.
Children and young people who may be
vulnerable due to self esteem issues could
engage in harmful behaviours that appear to be
promoted and accepted within the specific on line
community. Finally commercial content is a
concern. Children could be particularly vulnerable
to persuasion from on line advertising and children
are often susceptible to and confused by
advertising as they lack the necessary evaluation
skills to assess the information. In addition the
level of exposure could be an issue and TV
advertising aimed at children becomes more
measured and controlled this may not be the case
on the internet.
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Content
Exposure to age
inappropriate material
Exposure to inaccurate
or misleading
information
Contact
Grooming using
communication
technologies leading to
sexual assault and/or
child prostitution
Exposure to socially
unacceptable material
such as that inciting
violence, hate or
intolerance
Commerce
Exposure of minors to
inappropriate
commercial advertising
Exposure to on line
gambling services
Commercial and
financial scams
Culture
Bullying via web sites,
mobile phones or other
forms of communication
device
Downloading of
copyrighted materials
eg music and films
Exposure to illegal
material, such ass
images of child abuse
Taken from Safeguarding Children in a Digital World, Becta, 2007
All agencies providing services for children have
duty to understand e-safety issues, recognizing
their role in helping children to remain safe online
while also supporting adults who care for children.
Staff from all agencies, working the children in a
large variety of settings, should also promote the
safe and responsible use of technologies in its
various forms. (Developing an e-safety strategy,
Becta, 2008)
The E safety strategy will set out the LSCB
approach to e safety within North Lincolnshire
recognizing the benefits of digital technologies as
well as the risks to safeguarding children.
Section 5: Developing an e-safety
strategy in North Lincolnshire
Whose responsibility?
All agencies providing services to children have a
duty to understand e-safety issues, this includes
recognising their role in helping children to remain
safe online and also supporting adults who care
for children. The role of the Local Safeguarding
Children’s Board (LSCB) is to coordinate and
ensure the effectiveness of e-safety work across
all member agencies, as such it is vital that the
LSCB lead on the strategic direction for E safety.
‘LSCBs have a statutory duty to safeguard and
promote the welfare of children in their locality
and, as technology increasingly permeates into
every aspect of a child’s life from an ever-younger
age, e-safety must necessarily be part of this
remit.’
(Taken from: Safeguarding Children in Digital
World (Guidance Toolkit for LAs, Becta, 2008))
Agencies who work with children and young
people have a responsibility to ensure that they
work collaboratively and ensure that e safety
issues are anticipated and accounted for within
their agency, ensuring that all staff understand the
issues and their professional responsibilities.
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The LSCB has recognized the role it has in
developing and co-ordinating a strategic local
approach to e-safety to promote and safeguard
the welfare of all children in a digital world when
using communication technologies.
E-Safety Training Strategy.
The development of an E-Safety Training Strategy
is essential to prepare and inform people
regarding e safety.
Training should be targeted and specific to:
The e-safety strategy is embedded in the wider
work of the LSCB, it being a key part of the Stay
Safe Plan for Safeguarding. The LSCB has
established an E safety task group which has a
defined implementation plan that sets out the
priorities regarding e safety. (see appendix)
The E safety task group has multi agency
representation and a defined terms of reference.
(see appendix)
Local consultation undertaken with children and
young people to inform the E safety strategy has
highlighted that they primarily access the internet
at home and that the majority of computers are in
their bedrooms. This highlights the important role
parents and carers have regarding teaching their
children to be ‘virtually street wise’, just as they
would teach them about the dangers on the road.
Children and young people are extremely adept
using new technologies and peers are often the
most effective teachers and moderators of
behaviour. Whilst it is recognized that children and
young people should be provided with support
and advice regarding e safety it is also
acknowledged that they can be extremely
effective in supporting and assist each other
regarding keeping safe and understanding safe
behaviours.
Increasingly pressure from Government and
safeguarding agencies is being applied to
industries and business to support safety and
responsible digital technology. The LSCB will work
within national strategies and directives that result
form the recommendations from the Byron
Review (2008). Equally we will engage with local
businesses in the implementation of the E safety
strategy.
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Children and young people
Parents and carers including grandparents
Those who listen to children and young people
Those who influence children and young
people
• Those who respond to incidents when
children’s safety has been placed at risk
Training should cover:-
• an audit of current level of e-safety awareness,
then
• general e-safety and digital literacy awareness
raising, at an appropriate level
• the embedding of e-safety training in all other
training which has an ICT base
• technical awareness, at an appropriate level
• the assessment of e-safety risks to / for
children & young people
• the assessment of e-safety risks posed by
adults and other children and young people
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Focus of Training
Audience
E-safety
awareness/
embedding
Technical
Awareness
Risks
to for
children
Risks
posed by
adults
Children
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Parents
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Work with
children
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Work with adults
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Work with
technology
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Leaders,
managers &
strategists
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Monitoring and Reporting on E-Safety
Incidents.
It is essential that as part of the statutory
functions of the LSCB information is readily
available regarding e safety incidents. E-safety
information regarding incidents needs to be
maintained by each agency. Agencies will need to
ensure that staff within their agency understand
the thresholds for referral regarding e safety
issues either because a child is suffering or at risk
of suffering significant harm, or a referral to the
Local Authority Designated Officer is necessary
due to staff conduct. Information should be
collated and recorded in a systematic and
consistent manner consisting of:
• a description of incident, who involved, how
identified, actions taken and by whom,
conclusions
In addition agencies will need to ensure that
incidents are reviewed regularly to identify
patterns, risk factors.
Staff within agencies will need to be aware of
whom the nominated E safety officer is within
North Lincolnshire and the role he has in relation
Other
links
Updates/
refresher
courses
to the management and oversight of E safety
issues.
The nominated senior officer for E safety
appointed by the LSCB is Dave Basker Head of
Safeguarding and Practice.
The LSCB will need to monitor e safety issues in
order to make judgments on the degree of
seriousness of incidents, to inform guidance on
future preventative measures and effectiveness of
responses and disseminate effective practice.
Monitoring of Impact of the E-Safety
Strategy.
As part of the performance management
framework of the LSCB the Board will review not
only the effectiveness of e safety arrangements
but also the impact of the e safety strategy and
outcomes for children and young people as to
whether they are any safer.
It is anticipated that an effective e-safety strategy
may have a high number of incidents reported
initially as awareness is raised. The E-Safety subgroup will monitor trends in order to respond to
changing e-safety issues.
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Appendix 1 - Terms of Reference
2.2
North Lincolnshire’s Local Safeguarding
Children’s Board
As defined in guidance safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children is
identified as:
• protecting children from maltreatment
E Safety Task Group - Terms of Reference August 2008
• preventing impairment of children’s
health or development
1.0
Purpose
• ensuring that children are growing up in
circumstances consistent with the
provision of safe and effective care.
1.1
The Local Safeguarding Children’s Board in
North Lincolnshire in April 2006 is the
statutory mechanism for agreeing how the
relevant organisations in the area will cooperate to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children in North Lincolnshire.
1.2
1.3
The E Safety Task Groups that will service
the LSCB provides the key infrastructure
that will support the Board in fulfilling it’s
core functions in respect of E Safety.
The aim of the E Safety Task group is to is
to support the LSCB in fulfilling it’s two
main objectives:
• the co-ordination of local work to
safeguard and promote the welfare of
children
• to ensure the effectiveness of that work.
2.0
What do we want to achieve for
children?
2.1
E safety sits across all 5 Outcomes for
Children and Young people. The LSCB has
a specific focus on the Stay Safe Outcome
• * Stay safe
• Healthy
•
Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
•
Achieve economic well-being
3.0
Principles
3.1
The principles that underpin the LSCB
subgroups are compliant with those
identified in the Term of Reference for the
LSCB.
• Children and young people are listened
to and what they have to say is taken
seriously and acted upon in an
appropriate manner;
• Interventions take place at an early point
when difficulties or problems are
identified;
• Where possible/practicable, the wishes
and feelings of the particular child are
obtained and taken into account when
deciding on action to be undertaken in
relation to him or her. Children and
Families are communicated with using
their preferred communication method
or language;
• Racial heritage, language, religion, faith
and disability are taken into account
when working with a child and their
family;
• Assessments of children and families
are consistent with the Framework for
the Assessment of Children in Need and
their Families (2000) and professionals
contribute to subsequent plans,
interventions and reviews in accordance
with requirements in relevant regulations
and guidance;
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• Relevant services are provided to
respond to the identified needs of
children and to support parents/carers
in effectively undertaking their parenting
roles. This may require referral to a
colleague within the agency or to
another agency to obtain the services.
Where a particular service is not
available or there is a delay in it being
available, alternative services should be
provided where possible to ensure the
child’s welfare is safeguarded;
• Where a number of professionals are
involved in supporting a child and their
family, a co-ordinated approach to
meeting their needs should be
developed. In these cases, it will be
appropriate for one practitioner among
those involved to take on a lead role in
co-ordinating the support. This role is
known as “lead professional”;
• Lessons learned from local and national
reviews, from both good practice and
mistakes, are incorporated into practice
and where appropriate monitored to
ensure that outcomes for children are
improved from learning.
4.0
Representation
4.1
All agencies should recognise the
importance of securing effective cooperation by appointing representatives
that sufficient seniority and experience to
represent their agency on the task group.
4.2
As far as possible organisations should
designate particular named people as their
Task group member so that there is
consistency and continuity of membership
4.3
The Task group should have representation
from the key agencies/ Services:
• Work with each child and family focuses
on improving outcomes for each child;
• Head of Safeguarding and Practice/
Nominated Senior Officer
• There is effective supervision and
monitoring of work with individual
children and their families and where
necessary professional consultation is
made available and used accordingly;
• Senior Information Officer
• Quality records are kept and information
is appropriately shared on all work with
individual children and their families in
accordance with agency requirements;
• IT systems for recording information
support effective work with children and
their families, and have the capacity to
aggregate information for strategic
planning and management purposes.
• For employees and volunteers involved
with children and families, recruitment
and selection procedures and policies in
each constituent agency are compliant
with North Lincolnshire LSCB policies,
legislation and guidance.
• Regional Broadband Consortium
• Senior Advisory Officer- Learning
Schools and Community
• Detective Inspector- Humberside Police
• IT Manager- PCT
• Senior Officer- Library Services
• Extended Schools
• Strategic Coordinator LSCB
• Anti Bullying Consultant
• Youth Services
• Colleges
• LADO
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• It is expected that representatives from
the agencies represented bring pertinent
information as requested.
• Organisational
1. Task group members should be in a
position to ensure implementation within
their own agencies of policies and
priorities agreed by the LSCB
• It is expected that the representatives
on the Task groups will disseminate the
appropriate information that can be
shared from the meeting through their
individual agency, through formal
mechanisms such as Team Meetings,
professional meetings, cluster meetings,
briefings or other suitable forums for
communication.
2. Task group members need to be able to
commit their time and appropriate
agency resources to the work of the
LSCB Task Group.
• Professional
1. Task group members need to have
either: sufficient knowledge and
experience of safeguarding issues
within their agency to execute subgroup functions.
6.3
• The Task group should have set an
agenda that will be disseminated 5
working days before the meeting
• The Task group will have recorded
minutes of each meeting.
2. Task group members need to have
sufficient knowledge of other agencies.
• The Chair of the Task group is
responsible for checking the minutes
and the distribution of the minutes.
3. Task group members need to have
sufficient knowledge of appropriate
legislation.
5.0
Accountability
5.1
Task group members are jointly responsible
for the action of the task group and this will
be overseen by the LSCB.
5.2
Task group members must be able to
provide statutory interagency leadership
and governance at a strategic, operational
and promotional level.
6.0
Responsibilities
6.1
Members Responsibilities:
• It is requested that representatives who
attend the task group on behalf of their
agency, consultation within their agency
bring to the task group relevant matters
for discussion.
Chair Responsibilities:
• The Chair of the Task group will report
regularly to LSCB regarding the task
groups progress against the BECTA
toolkit and LSCB priorities as set out in
the LSCB Strategic Plan.
• The Chair of the Task group will be
invited to present this information to the
LSCB.
6.5
Task group collective responsibilities
• The Task group will work against the
Strategic plan produced
• The Task group will develop an E Safety
Strategy
• The Task group will develop Policies and
Procedures pertinent to E safety for
agreement by the LSCB
• The Task group will provide advice and
support to colleagues and the
community on E Safety
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• The Task group will coordinate
awareness on E Safety
7.0
Arrangements
7.1
The Task group will be time limited to
initially 1 year. The group’s progress will be
reviewed at the end of year one to
determine the future life cycle of the group.
8.0
Funding
8.1
Agencies commit the time and relevant
resources
9.0
Performance Management
9.1
Action Plan to be developed
• The Task group will develop an E safety
Training Strategy
• The Task group will work in partnership
to address specific areas of concern to
Children and Young People re the use of
new technologies
Appendix 2 - E safety Implementation Plan
LSCB Priority 2008-2009 for E safety Task Group - E Safety Implementation Plan
Priority
‘E’
Safety
Action
Milestones
E safety task Task Group to be
group is
agreed by the LSCB
established
To develop
an E Safety
Strategy
Progress update
May
2008
LSCB
E safety task group
established and has been
meeting since June 2008
June
2008
LSCB
Membership agreed and in
place
Terms of Reference to August
be established and
2008
agreed
E safety Action
group
Terms of Reference agreed
by the group, presented to
the LSCB for agreement
Nomination to be
agreed by the LSCB
May
2008
LSCB
Nominated Senior officer in
place
Nominated officer to
undergo BECTA
training
June
2008
LSCB
Nominated Senior Officer
undergone BECTA training
Review of existing
strategies to be
undertaken
June
2008
E Safety Task
Group
Draft Strategy developed,
using BECTA toolkit and
review of existing e safety
strategies
Membership to be
agreed and first
meeting to be held
To nominate
an E safety
Officer
Timescale Responsibility
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Priority
Action
To develop
E safety
Policy and
Guidance
Milestones
Timescale Responsibility
Progress update
Draft Strategy to be
developed
Draft Strategy to be
presented to the
LSCB for agreement
August
2008
July
2009
Review of existing
AUP’s to be
undertaken
July
2009
Develop guidance
toolkit for schools
AUP for children in
schools to be
developed
July
2009
July
2009
E safety task
group
E safety task
group
National templates reviewed
AUP for Children in
July
Care to be developed 2009
E safety Task
group
Consultation undertaken with
children in care. Review of
safe net and training for
children undertaken
Guidance on
managing E mail to
be updates
Corporate IT
ongoing
July
2009
E Safety Task
Group
E Safety Task
Group
Draft version developed
August 2008.
Strategy not be presented to
LSCB yet as consultation
underway with Children and
young people, will be
presented to the LSCB in
January 2009
E Safety Task
Existing AUP’s reviewed and
Group in
a corporate AUP for Council
partnership with to be renewed. Toolkit to be
Corporate IT in developed with a template
NLC Council. E for AUP’s
safety members
with respective
IT sections
Existing templates looked at
Guidance on
July
Managing the internet 2009
safely for people
working with children
E Safety Task
Ongoing and on target
Group in
conjunction with
Corporate IT
Policy on how
infringements will be
handled
July
2009
E Safety Task
Group
Ongoing and on target
Update existing
July
LSCB Guidelines and 2009
procedures
E Safety Task
Group
Ongoing and on target
LSCB
1 further officer trained in
CEOP Ambassador training
October 2008
To develop a Increase the number
training
of Ambassador’s
strategy
trained in CEOP
regarding
material
E safety
March
2009
13
Artwork by pupils
from Leys Farm Junior School
Priority
Action
Develop
awareness
information
on e safety
Milestones
Timescale Responsibility
Progress update
Build into LSCB
training calendar E
safety training for
practitioners
March
2008
Training Action
Group
E safety Training built into
LSC training calendar March
2008
Develop an E safety
awareness briefing
sessions for senior
managers
represented on LSCB
Develop an E safety
training plan for
schools
August
2008
E Safety Task
Group
Pending behind target due
to VANL event
January
2009
E Safety Task
Group
Ongoing and on target
Develop E training
strategy for parents
and pupils
January
2009
E Safety Task
Group
Ongoing and on target
Include E safety
information in
information packs
June 2008 Communication/
Community
Participation
Action Group
(CCPAG)
June
CCPAG
2008
Run awareness
campaigns in the
media
October
2008
Completed all information
packs include this
information
Campaign ran as part of
Child Safety Week. In
addition targeted campaign
for the Great Youth Debate
and consultation exercise.
Public information
disseminated at Frodingham
Gala, Emergency Service
Open day, Apna Sahara
event, Great Youth Debate
Ongoing and on target.
Information developed by
CEOP disseminated
Develop information
leaflet for parents
July
2009
CCPAG
Develop an
information leaflet for
children through
liaison with xpress
forum
Develop a good
practice guide for
providers eg post
offices, internet cafe
July
2009
CCPAG
Ongoing and on target.
Information developed by
CEOP disseminated
July
2009
CCPAG
Ongoing
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